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Introduction
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expected that transport-related CO2 emissions would triple by 2100 if effective policies and measures were not implemented in the near future.
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Research Progress of Transport Efficiency
In the literature, we can find different methods for measuring efficiency of the transport sector. The typical methodologies for transport efficiency assessment include index analysis method, stochastic fronti...
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Summary
The efficiency level of the railway passenger transport system is higher than that of the railway freight transport system, which indicates that the problem of investment waste is more serious in the railway f...
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Research Methods
This book applies the EBM model to calculate transport efficiency (in highway and railway transport sectors). In this section we introduce CCR and SBM models as representative radial and non-radial measures of...
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Railway Transport Efficiency
Due to its advantages such as big transport capacity, low energy consumption, low pollution, safety and comfort, railway transport is one of the key modes of transport in many countries. With 6% of the world’s...
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Water Transport Efficiency
Water transport is a relatively low-cost transport mode based on the use of geographic conditions.
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Transport Energy and Climate Change
Global warming is an irrefutable fact. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) pointed out that the global average surface temperature increased by 0.85 °C from 1880...
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Transport Safety
Since the reform and opening-up, the transport sector in China has made great achievements. The overall scale of the transport sector is expanding at an amazing rate. Compared with 1978, the volume of freight ...
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Highway Transport Efficiency
Against the backdrop of sustainable economic development and industrial transformation and upgrading, the modern transport system of China has been continuously optimized and improved. With the guidance and su...
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Air Transport Efficiency
With the development of technology and economy, the elements of social and economic activities flow more frequently around the world. Civil aviation with the characteristics of long-distance and high-speed tra...
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Urban Transport Efficiency
The urban transport sector is an important urban industrial economic sector. An unreasonable and low-efficient transport sector will affect the overall organization and operation of the city. On the contrary, ...
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Transport Environmental Efficiency in China
From the signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to the opening of a new round of climate talks in Bonn in 2018, climate change has been an international ...
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The Economic Operation of the Transport Industry
Transport investment plays an important role in promoting economic growth. Transport infrastructure construction projects have a long industrial chain, which can fully drive the growth of the steel, cement, bu...
